themilksharkI'd totally understand it if a witness admitted this made the movie better

IrishWhiskeyHopefully comments will wait until the bodies are cold before making Batman jokes. Not on YouTube I know, but here at least.

The media remains awful at covering this stuff. The Charlie Brooker video is the first thing that comes to mind when these things happen.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=56532

The ABC anchor sort of barely spits out "and of course thoughts with the victims" before spending all the rest of his time speculating wildly about terrorist connections, further attacks, and all the many ways that people should feel unsafe in ordinary public places.

The media's first instinct is to turn it into a dark action movie with a villain that people can root against, where the fear will keep people on the edge of their seats desperately listening to know whether they are in danger, and what rights they need to give up to feel safe again.

XenocideAn MSNBC "expert" started the day by speculating that the shooter was probably "a dark, Trekkie-like person."

GOP congressman Louie Gohmert blamed the shooting on the lack of prayer in public schools, then went on to ask why more people in the theater didn't have guns.

The Dark Knight Rises is preceded by a trailer for an Untouchables ripoff with the incredibly snappy title of Gangster Squad. The highlight of the trailer is a sequence where a bunch of thugs burst into a packed movie theater and begin firing at random. The trailer has been pulled.

The NRA's Twitter account Tweeted the following this morning: "Happy Friday, shooters! Any plans for the weekend?"

All of these things are happening in our real world. The plot to Dark Knight Rises is feeling a lot less outlandish this morning.

chairsforcheapyeah what the fuck is up with the description... maybe you should change it to not be a complete cunt

The shooter went to a Westview High School, which is currently facing a lawsuit for their having posted blatantly religious banners in classrooms telling kids that America is a Christian nation. So even though Gohmert should have been able to guess the kid went to a secular school, he still got it wrong.

Like when people immediately assumed that the Asian technology student at Virginia Tech was influenced by videogames, only to have the roommate inform them that he actually didn't play games and preferred plays and wrestling.

When terrible acts like this happen, it's common for terrorist groups to take responsibility in the hopes of getting attention and pushing their agenda. Gohmert's just another terrorist, who chose to follow his terrorist idea of a terrorist god to excuse himself of personal responsibility for his own actions and morals, while telling people that more of their children and loved ones will die if he doesn't get what he wants.

The first reaction of some CUNT from texas was "why werent there more guns to quell the action?" and your cute little reference to the murdered victims as "batmans" being powerless sort of adds to the notion, no? Because if they were batmans, they should have been able to defend themselves, right? Instead of dying helplessly in theater seats. Fuck you. Withdrawal withdrawn. Give me another shot of the alcohol, good man. (not you)

themilksharkHad there been more guns, more people probably would have died. Also would the situation somehow be better if the guy who shot everyone was shot dead himself? I'd like to see him face prison rather than go out in a blaze of terrorist glory.

memedumpsterNo one in the theater was less powerful than anyone else who would dress in a rubber suit and throw Batarangs at people dressed in clown mankeup. If Batman had been there for real he'd be dead, because no such person would survive in a real world situation like that. I bet one in a hundred people going into the theater knew that already. Everyone leaving did. Batman is fucking useless to the real world, which is why he's fun and endearing, because the real world is not. What could have saved those people is a country that doesn't suck out loud raising kids who aren't psychotic.

Cena_markI've made a lot of pro gun arguments in the past, but more guns wouldn't have helped here. The shooter had the element of surprise, tear gas, and darkness on his side. More guns would have just meant more stray fire.

spikestoyiuA lot of Internet cowboys saddling up today, and they're all relatively certain that in a theater full of smoke and chaos, they would have definitely been able to take out the guy with the assault rifle and the body armor.

HookerThe "I would have done better" response is always my favourite. It absolutely enrages me every time I hear it.

The suspect was dressed all in black,. He was wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, a throat protector and a groin protector and a gas mask, and black tactical gloves.

This of course won't stop all the people saying that Mr. Concealed Carry would have been able to reach past his popcorn tub for his Walmart Glock and take this guy down no problem.

Jet Bin FeverI await the NRA's response that had more of the theater goers been armed they could've shot the guy dead before he shot so many people. It's a common misdirect and I'm sure they're going to use it.

John Holmes MotherfuckerWatching a truly fucking horrible NBC special report. There's so little actual news to report, so we get an hour of tearful faces and conventional philosophy about how "you only go around once in this life." Turns out shooting sprees are pretty unpleasant.

lordyamso in new orleans it rained like hell. we got flooded and closed for the day. good reason to see batman! i thought. kids and the goddamn internet sold me out. i went to the bar couldnt go home cause it was raining so bad. THAN i hear this. i work with a guy who gives the best hugs and he was wearing batman underwear that day as he showed the whole bar. giggled like a five yr old. made us feel better. point of story its not the heros get better so the villians get worse. its the villians are assholes and the heros find a way